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"Yes, ma'am; but you " Miss Polly evidently read the pause aright, for she frowned and said crisply: "No, I shall not go. It is not necessary that I should, I think. That is all." And she turned away Miss Polly's arrangements for the comfort of her niece, Pollyanna, were complete. In the kitchen, Nancy sent her flatiron with a vicious dig across the dish-towel she was ironing.
Mother Maillet came to the kitchen door and waved adieu with her dish-towel. "Ah, the family!" she cried. "Yesterday it was not to-day it is. And grandpere marching off ahead!" "Old folks and children they say embarrassing things," remarked Farr when they were on their way. "One must be silly along with them to be disturbed by such chatter," said Zelie Dionne, tartly.
He handed his gun and belt to Maria, who marched on ahead, triumphantly waving her dish-towel as a gonfalon of victory, while she cheered for the Union in her sweet contralto. Mandy took possession of his blanket roll and haversack, while Si almost carried his tearful mother on to the porch. There her housewifely instinct at once asserted it self.
So to work they went of their own free will. The strawberries were plentiful, and soon the tin cups, heaped with their luscious loads, were being carried to the pails beneath the bass-wood bushes. Elizabeth never grew weary picking strawberries. This was a task infinitely removed from being shut into a hot kitchen with a dish-towel, while the boys played in the barnyard.
Jo in the doorway waving her dish-towel, and looking as if she wanted to dance a jig for joy, as she used to do when a girl. "Now then," cried Mr. Bhaer, and led off a rousing hurrah, which startled Asia in the kitchen, and made old Mr. Roberts shake his head as he drove by, saying, "Schools are not what they were when I was young!" Dan stood it pretty well for a minute, but the sight of Mrs.
"I don't see what Minervy had to go and die for!" she complained, dodging a low-hanging branch of bloom-laden lilac. "She could wash the dishes and I'd wipe 'em and I s'pose there ain't a clean dish-towel in the house, either! Marthy's an awful slack housekeeper." Billy Louise, being a young person with a conscience of a sort washed the dishes, since she had given her word to do it.
Every day nearly she had a "scene" with some one, a guest or a servant, or both. Mrs. Collis had burst into tears at a luncheon in honour of a rich Jewish money-lender, because she thought herself insulted. She had been given a kitchen dish-towel instead of a napkin, and had spoiled the party by complaining of it. The stupid creature!
"I've got something to say to to her," he said, in a low tone. "I thought I'd ask you to stay out here for a minute I won't be long." She said nothing for a moment, but looked at him strangely, as she slowly dried her hands on a dish-towel.
"I hope I shan't break anything," murmured Azalea, accepting a dish-towel. The Skeptic took another. "Oh, no," he assured her. "That delicate touch of yours why, I never heard anybody who could play pianissimo legato cantabile like you. You wouldn't break a spun-glass rainbow." Azalea did not break anything.
"You don't seem to mellow with age," I announced, with my eyebrows up. He flushed at that, quite plainly. Then he reached over and took hold of my hand. But he did it only with an effort, and after some tremendous inward struggle which was not altogether flattering to me. "Please take your hand away so I can reach the dish-towel," I told him. And the hand went away like a shot.
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